Researchers at the Ohio State University's James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Columbus say they were not surprised tobacco-related cancers were 63 percent lower among the non-smoking Amish than in the non-Amish.

Other factors such as eating organic food, having few sexual partners and wearing long sleeves and wide-brimmed hats, may also have helped keep cancerrates 40 percent lower in the Amish community, the researchers say. [emphasis added]

- Rabbi Chaim Poupko
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